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I have been using more and more picture books with a few of my classes this year. I’ve been looking for more resources/lists that share picture books for older readers. What are some of your favorite picture books for older readers?

I use picture books with fourth graders ALL of the time–in fact too many to list. I use them to teach writing skills and to teach reading skills-like fact and opinion, cause and effect, text to world connections, etc. Then I use them just because I love a good story and picture books are great for sharing. I love Carole Boston Weatherford’s books, Robert Burleigh’s books, Come on Rain by Karen Hesse, Snowflake Bentley, Heat Wave by Eileen Spinelli, Crow Call by Lois Lowry. The list could go on and on….

I have some new favorites I always read with 1st and 2nd grade classes when they visit the library – Melanie Watt’s Chester, Fucile’s Let’s Do Nothing, and Mac Barnett’s Billy Twitters and Guess Again. I love funny books!

Anything by Patricia Polacco, Henry’s Freedom Box, The Little Match Girl, Freedom River, and two others I cannot think of the title for (one is about a fence separating two girl’s properties-segration and the other is a friendship between a white/Afr American and the swimming pool is cemented over). If I think of the titles I will get back to you. They are awesome.

Yes to both of the titles! Thank you so much, Marcie! I was going to search my read aloud baskets when I went in today because it was driving me crazy.
I love the wiki, by the way. What a great resource!

To work on text to text connections with my 7th graders I used The Taste of Colored Water to match up with Roll of THunder, Hear My Cry. They kids made connections throughout the whole unit. THey grasped the picture book easily and it helped them grasp onto concepts in Roll of Thunder.